Vehicles.. Lets be honest

[kreatura (DayZ) 27]

Alright guys im just going to go outright and say it that the current vehicle system is just awful. Basically with every single damned server owned by massive clans now and vehicle hoarding becoming ridiculous me a regular player who plays with just my one friend it is near impossible to actually get any vehicles especially the useful ones such as ural jeeps etc. Now i get that the vehicles are supposed to be rare and everything but i think having only a couple of vehicles per server is not the way to go. With the low amount of vehicles it seems the only way to actually get any vehicles is to join up with a clan instilling a mob mentality that just results in more vehicle hoarding. This wouldn't even be so bad except for the admin abuse where if i ever do manage to find a vehicle someone has hid (seeing as they never actually spawn anymore) the server just gets restarted by butthurt admins and i lose it again. So basically my solution is that we implement a lot more vehicle spawns but we take away the majority of gas tanks. This is going to make for a much better experience if you ask me and make people a lot smarter about how they use their vehicles at the same time. The lower amount of gas is also going to create more pvp hotspots which i guess is going to be good or bad depending on how you play the game but i personally like the idea of this seeing as no one even bothers to go up north anymore.

anyway tell me what you guys think

tldr: more vehicle spawns less gas spawns.

[Tek (DayZ) 95]

Wait... so you want to decrease the amount of fuel available... thus making clans who "horde" vehicles use them even less... thus making the chance of you stealing them smaller? Hmmm....

Vehicles are ridiculously easy to get. We get them all the time, and then lose them all the time. Use a little thought logic and you'll be able to find the vehicles pretty easily. And when you see a vehicle moving, try to determine where they might be going, and if you have some friends on around the map, let them know you saw a vehicle and to be ready. Depending on the situation it's possible to swipe one from underneath a clans nose. We've done it once before.

It's really easy to find the vehicles..

And why shouldn't a group working together not be able to put their combined manpower together to outwork people playing solo? I don't understand how anyone have problems finding people to play with in today's gaming world with Teamspeak, Ventrillo, Mumble, and guild's constantly recruiting.

[Carebear Baddie 47]

No need for moar vehicle spawns. Hoarding isn't the problem. The problems are 1) hiding vehicles outside the map in the wasteland area, 2) vehicles having a one week respawn timer once they're destroyed.

[Tek (DayZ) 95]

No need for moar vehicle spawns. Hoarding isn't the problem. The problems are 1) hiding vehicles outside the map in the wasteland area, 2) vehicles having a one week respawn timer once they're destroyed.

Outside of the chopper, I believe vehicles respawn after server restart once destroyed.

[novac3721 15]

Find a bicycle (easy) then search the northern part of the map, from Y 000 to 010 along the entire West-East area. I did this yesterday, I found 5 camps, and one of them had a pick-up truck. Another had another bike. If you don't find cars, you will certainly find camps, probably full of duped items for your enjoyment.

[puppetworx 474]

Certainly less vehicle parts spawns. The number of helicopter main rotor assemblies I see is comical.

[kreatura (DayZ) 27]

Wait... so you want to decrease the amount of fuel available... thus making clans who "horde" vehicles use them even less... thus making the chance of you stealing them smaller? Hmmm....

Vehicles are ridiculously easy to get. We get them all the time, and then lose them all the time. Use a little thought logic and you'll be able to find the vehicles pretty easily. And when you see a vehicle moving, try to determine where they might be going, and if you have some friends on around the map, let them know you saw a vehicle and to be ready. Depending on the situation it's possible to swipe one from underneath a clans nose. We've done it once before.

It's really easy to find the vehicles..

And why shouldn't a group working together not be able to put their combined manpower together to outwork people playing solo? I don't understand how anyone have problems finding people to play with in today's gaming world with Teamspeak, Ventrillo, Mumble, and guild's constantly recruiting.

i dont think it's going to force people to use them less at all, i dont mean to just have like 1 fuel station in the whole map, maybe a few spread out nicely but just not a gas tank in every single random town. I dont think i should need to hunt down clans just to get vehicles. Yes obviously clans are always going to have an advantage if they are smart and work together but i dont think that advantage should result in them having every vehicle within the server and then them restarting the server every time i do manage to find one myself. Yes i could easily join a clan or find other people to play with if i wanted to but i dont think i should be required to do this to be able to use the vehicles

[metaminer 28]

Read the tl;dr, gave beans, then left

[fully 51]

I'm a solo player, have found ute, tractor, bike and the atv it took me 2 days to get it going. But they are around if you go looking for them.

In 1 town I found the rotor assembly, motor, 4 wheels scrap metal.

[Kar98 27]

I'm with you there OP. I find it hard to find vehicle. I've found 4 in around 50ish hours of gameplay (maybe more) and all because I shot someone out of them

[ShigZ 66]

I think one of the greatest problem with vehicles are the spawn points. Everybody knows where to get that bike, that Ural truck, the cars, everything. I say vehicles spawn points should be random as with the heli crash sites. That would make it much more difficult and rewarding to EVERYBODY playing the game (except the hackers, of course). Also, vehicles not used (saved) within two days should just re-spawn.

[kreatura (DayZ) 27]

I think one of the greatest problem with vehicles are the spawn points. Everybody knows where to get that bike, that Ural truck, the cars, everything. I say vehicles spawn points should be random as with the heli crash sites. That would make it much more difficult and rewarding to EVERYBODY playing the game (except the hackers, of course). Also, vehicles not used (saved) within two days should just re-spawn.

that is also a really good idea, knowing people though they are eventually going to figure out the spawn points points regardless and just roam around checking them all like the heli sites.

[MoronToTheKore 57]

The solution to the problem is not to add more of the problem.

[Polak (DayZ) 14]

i have a server with my clan and we only have like 2 vehicles and one motorbike.

[sostronk 334]

Hackers sort out clan vehicle hoarding almost right away. They also deal with tent placing. Both the Vehicle system and tents are broken and will continue to be until they are redesigned.

[s4pphire 45]

I usually play in a group of two, yet I have 'owned' between 10-20 vehicles, mostly stolen. There are only a handful of vehicles which can be remotely hidden, it really isn't hard to come across them if you put some time and effort into it.

Blaming people for hoarding vehicles is quite silly too, with the amount of .50 cals around currently you must be absolutely retarded to drive anything but a bicycle or motorcycle around the place with more than 10-15 people on the server. We took out four active vehicles in the past two days alone, and there is nothing whatsoever you can do if you find yourself in that situation, so what other choice do you have but to keep them hidden unless the server is almost empty?

[Drey 5]

So once I wanted to find a vehicle. On Monday I went up north and started to search through every single town and city. It took me a week of endless stalking on different servers and checking every single shack to find absolutely NOTHING.

So my suggestion for the game is to have significantly more vehicles thus on worst condition. It will still need people to put some labor and cooperation to fix these, but at least having a vehicle would be possible in the game.

Seriously, having a large backpack stuffed with all sorts vehicle parts for two weeks and finding no car eventually is such a pain.

[osirish 165]

One or two people have a vehicle ... that's ok?

but a clan of 10+ people have 4 or 5 vehicles ... that's hoarding?

I don't see your logic.

Finding vehicles isn't hard. Keeping them, is.

The more vehicles you have, the harder it is to hide them and the easier it is to find them.

I believe there are 22 vehicles on every official server. It's not that hard to find at least one, assuming that the people who have them aren't storing them off map.

[Asuka 20]

Here's a simple guide on how to find vehicles.

1 - Look up the vehicle spawn map

2 - Get a bunch of your friends to help you

3 - Everyone picks a vehicle spawn and moves there

4 - Everyone server hops until they find a vehicle

5 - Read the bible

6 - ????

7 - Prophet

It's not that hard.

[Ivell 0]

Playing with 2 friends found 2 UAZ in the last week one I repaired by myself in stary sobor the other one we stole when some idiots left it unguarded for a couple of minutes in the nw airfield

Edit: and the one I fixed last night has now vanished due to server reset back to where i got it from

Edited August 22, 2012 by Ivell

[aussiestig 681]

Vehicles hoarding is a non issue.

Every single player that hardly ever gets a vehicle are the ones that complain about it. I bet you anything that you would hide a vehicle at any cost if it meant you could come back to it the next day. If you had the chance to hide 2 vehicles you would as well.

Not to mention that we earn our vehicles. We can't dupe vehicles, we can't even server hop to find a server with one, we need to find them on our own server before others do. I don't see any problem at all.

[Hoskins123 24]

I never use vehicles unless I find one fully operational. However I have noticed almost every time I spawn at Stolich there seems to be a blue wagon or white truck parked right under the gas station with missing tires. Might be worth checking out in a few servers.

[blinklaurent@hotmail.com 28]

Asuka server hop is bad. My idea is to fibd a good server almost always play on the same maybe two max. After a week or 2 youwill know all the camp of other player and really know where to look for. Check sometimes the spawn and you will find obe when you will not look for it...

[blinklaurent@hotmail.com 28]

Asuka server hop is bad. My idea is to fibd a good server almost always play on the same maybe two max. After a week or 2 youwill know all the camp of other player and really know where to look for. Check sometimes the spawn and you will find obe when you will not look for it...

[Cannabeast 4]

I don't think you haven't played enough because my group sees vehicles at their spawn areas a lot. This is not the best way, however. Fixing up cars, though mentally rewarding, is tedious and dangerous even at night.

The best way like the others have mentioned here is to take advantage of other people's hard work and steal already fixed-up ones. Northern and western forests. Bring like 3 cans of pop 3 cans of food and you'll find a vehicle/camp inside of an hour.